Letters to the Editor
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George RR Martin...
When I read this, I immediately thought of George RR Martin (A Game of Thrones, Storm of Swords, Feast for Crows, etc.). His work is much more pessimistic in tone, but still follows a similar line of fantasy writing that JRR Tolkien basically pioneered. Outside of LOTR and the George RR Martin line, I pretty much stay as far away as possible from the fantasy novel genre...mainly because I haven't found or heard of anything better than these works (but I'm open to suggestions from any of the real sci-fi novel geeks out there).
I've read that HBO has acquired the rights to put this in a miniseries format, so it'll be interesting to see if that plays out...that's actually the best forum for that kind of story, it's definitely not kidstuff. And yes, I'm sure they'll take liberties with the material in the interest of time like the movies did with LOTR, but I'd rather see it done than not...you LOTR purists out there just need to lighten up a little, there's a whole generation of folks that wouldn't even have heard of LOTR (or Narnia, to be fair to C.S. Lewis) if they didn't put these stories out in film.
I hope they do George RR Martin justice...